I
ain't no ways ever against any girl having any kind of a way, to have
a good time like she wants it, but not that kind of a way Melanctha
always had to do it. I expect some day Melanctha kill herself, when
she act so bad like she do always, and then she got so awful blue.
Melanctha always says that's the only way she ever can think it a easy
way for her to do. No, I always am real sorry for Melanctha, she never
was no just common kind of nigger, but she don't never know not with
all the time I always was telling it to her, no she never no way could
learn, what was the right way she should do. I certainly don't never
want no kind of harm to come bad to Melanctha, but I certainly do
think she will most kill herself some time, the way she always say it
would be easy way for her to do. I never see nobody ever could be so
awful blue."
But Melanctha Herbert never really killed herself because she was so
blue, though often she thought this would be really the best way for
her to do. Melanctha never killed herself, she only got a bad fever
and went into the hospital where they took good care of her and cured
her.
When Melanctha was well again, she took a place and began to work
and to live regular. Then Melanctha got very sick again; she began to
cough and sweat and be so weak she could not stand to do her work.
Melanctha went back to the hospital, and there the Doctor told her she
had the consumption, and before long she would surely die.
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